A post explaining (a little).

Well finally new post. But not a post about new painted miniatures or about games played. This post is more about a little explaining why I don't post that much anymore. I am not going into details too much. Enough is to say that I have a lot of problems in my life that need to be solved first. Something that is way more important then this blog at the moment. How long it will take I can't tell. Also I don't have any idea when I will place a new blog-post. One thing is certain there probably won't be many blog-posts this year.

Until later.
Hein

Easy Company.

Painted just before 2013 comes to it's end. Easy Company.
It took me ages to paint these miniatures but they are finally done.
Not my best painted miniatures by far but it has to do. I didn't paint the tags on the helmets for now because every-time I tried to paint them it became a blurry mess. Maybe I will try it again in the future.
They are pained so they fit in with the rest of my 101st Airborne Division and not in winter theme.
Painting these miniatures made me realise that I no longer can paint without glasses.
The pictures aren’t very well. Somehow I can't take pictures at the same standard as in the past.

Easy Company

Captain Richard Winters with Captain Nixon

Lieutenant Ronald Speirs

First Sergeant Carwood Lipton

Corporal Darrell 'Shifty' Powers

Private Eugene Roe

Toccoa Sergeants

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Churchill I OKE platoon painted.

After the tanks were primed black it was time to paint them. The only things missing are the decals and the names on the tanks. To write the names on the tanks I am going to use a white fineliner pen (if these exist). The decals is another problem because there are no decals for this company so I have to paint these on the tanks or print the decals myself. Already found a site with a few examples of the markings that I need: 14th Armoured Regiment (Calgary Regiment)
To paint the tanks I used Russian Uniform as basecoat. Then I highlighted them using Russian Uniform mixed with a tiny bit of Iraquian Sand.
The tracks, cables and shovels are painted with German Grey and I used a 2B pencil to highlight them.
Note: the tanks may look little shiny on the pictures but that is because they don't have a layer of matt varnish yet.

Also painted are the Churchill I (CiC) and Churchill II (2iC) needed for the Company Headquarter.

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The making of a Churchill I OKE

For a moment I was afraid that I had to abandon the painting project of the Infantry Tank Company from the MW Dieppe PDF. Not only put it on hold for a while but abandon it completely. But gladly I saved some money and could buy a few blisters. I ordered 4 blisters with Churchill I or II and a blister with an infantry platoon (BEF) only to found out that the store owner forgot to order the infantry blister.
Two of the Churchill blisters are set aside these will bes used to form the Company HQ. The other two blisters are used to converted them to Churchill I OKE.
Using the prototype that I built earlier, that can be found here: here, and also using this webpage Modelling the Churchill OKE on the BF website as references I set to work. Not saying that this is the best or easiest method to convert the tanks but it is the method I used.
I am not going to write down every little detail because some can be found in the above mentioned website.

Materials used: 2 Churchill’s I, cardboard (I used a cardboard that is used to protect photo,s when you mail these,brass wire, greenstuff, small tubing, plastic of blister, wood-glue (can also be pva), super-glue, pliers, cutter, ruler pencil with a very sharp point, hobby-knife, ruler.
Of-course when you take a picture you always forget to include some of the materials.



First I cleaned the model and removed all flash from the hull and tracks (a lot) and removed at the back of the hull
those little piece that are no longer needed there. Make sure it is flat. On the picture below you can see at the right tank which pieces are removed from the back of the hull. Then I drilled a little hole in the front of the left track the size of the brass wire. When this was all done I glued, after dry-fitting, all pieces together.



Next I take the plastic of the blister and cutout a piece with the size of 15mm x 4.5mm. This piece is then glued to the back of the hull in such way that it sticks out a little above the hull. Most importantly is to keep the top of the plastic strip horizontal.

Painting the JU 87D Stuka (MW) part 4.

The final part. After I have tried to save more of the painting, I painted the details and gave the whole model a layer of gloss varnish to give it a hard sturdy protective layer. Next I applied the decals. The decals may not be the correct ones for a JU 87D Stuka but these are the ones I got with my model. After applying and drying a thin layer of diluted gloss varnish was painted over the decals. Last thing to do was to give the Stuka a layer of matt varnish (I use a spray can for that).
The end result is not good. If you look from a distance it looks pretty OK. The stuka does look as it has been fighting in the desert for a longer time and not for just 2 or 3 days. But if you take a closer look you can see the mistakes and even much more the disaster that happened, as you can see on the pictures. For now it has to do. Maybe in the future, if I have the desire, I will repaint the model.

This is one of the worst painted models I ever painted!

The end.

Painting the JU 87D Stuka (MW) part 1.
Painting the JU 87D Stuka (MW) part 2.
Painting the JU 87D Stuka (MW) part 3.

Thanks for looking.